by Guy Sayles | Jul 19, 2012 |
Yesterday, July 18, was “World Listening Day,” and it might be a commentary on my own failure to listen well that I didn’t hear about it until the day had passed. The World Listening Project sponsors World Listening Day as a part of its mission to encourage...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 13, 2012 |
Wendell Berry says that there are things about a farm which a farmer learns only by living on the land over time, tending to it in season and out of season, watching how the wind sweeps across it, observing how water flows over it, seeing the tracks of animals that...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 29, 2012 |
As Independence Day approaches, and as electioneering gets as intense as this summer heat wave, I’m hoping against hope for an outbreak of civility. Civility is a public virtue which is simple to praise and complicated to practice. It’s easy to dream about and...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 25, 2012 |
Even when we don’t acknowledge it, human beings long for God. I believe that we’re born with a desire for the divine. St. Augustine’s well-known prayer voices this longing: “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 8, 2012 |
FDR famously said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Similarly, I sometimes think the church’s greatest threat is the church itself. These days, many people are intensely interested in Jesus, but, at the same time, profoundly disinterested in the...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 7, 2012 |
This past Sunday our Youth Choir, under the creative and visionary direction of Clark Sorrells, and with the support of 80-plus adult volunteers, presented (magnificently!) Andrew Lloyd Webber’s and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar. Jesus Christ Superstar...
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